Kensington and Chelsea · Central London
Long Distance Moves from Kensington W8
Moving out of W8 to another part of the UK — £65 an hour of crew time plus £1.50 a road mile, fixed before you book. Kensington to Birmingham, 2-bed: £440.
- Fixed door-to-door price from one published formula
- Goods-in-transit and public liability insured
- DBS-checked crews, no subcontracted strangers
- One crew loads and unloads — no depot transfer
The service, locally
Long distance moves from Kensington W8
Long distance removals from Kensington start where every honest quote starts — how long the load takes in W8, and how many road miles sit between here and the new address. The sum is £65 per hour of crew time plus £1.50 per road mile, with an hour loading and an hour unloading included as the baseline. Stairs are the single biggest driver of crew hours on a long-distance job — a third-floor walk-up can add two billed hours before a wheel turns. It is the same formula in Kensington and Chelsea as it is everywhere else we work — the only thing that changes is your address and your mileage.
- Kensington residents
- 28,503Kensington residents
- Homes that are flats
- 82.7%Homes that are flats
- Privately rented homes
- 45.9%Privately rented homes
- Priced UK destinations
- 11Priced UK destinations
How it works
Three steps and a price that holds
Send both postcodes and the Kensington home size
Where you are leaving in Kensington, where you are going, how many bedrooms and the floor you are on. That is the whole input — the formula does the rest.
See the sum, not just a total
We send the crew hours, the real road miles via M1, M4 and the M25, and the two multiplications that produce your fixed price. If you disagree with an input, we change the input, not the price.
One crew loads, drives and unloads
Communal stairs carried by hand before the lorry leaves London. The same team that empties your Kensington home carries it into the new one — no depot transfer, no shared load, no re-quote on the day.
Why us
Why Kensington moves with us over the long haul
The formula is published, not negotiated
£65 an hour of crew time plus £1.50 a road mile, printed on the page before you speak to anyone. Two people moving the same load out of Kensington on the same day pay the same price.
Mileage is measured, not estimated
We price the road distance the lorry actually drives, not a straight line on a map. Kensington to Manchester is 200 road miles and is charged as 200 — a 2-bed at £560, fixed.
One crew, one vehicle, door to door
Your load is never consolidated with another household's or dropped at a depot overnight. That is why our long-distance dates hold and our damage rate stays where it is.
Stairs and conversions in Kensington
Half-landings and 1890s doorways decide the load hours long before the motorway does. We ask for the floor and the stair type at survey, then price the hours honestly rather than discovering them on the day.
Transparent mileage pricing
Long distance prices from Kensington the sum, not just the total
The formula
£65/hour crew time + £1.50/road mile
One hour loading and one hour unloading are included as the baseline. Every price below is that sum with your numbers in it.
Kensington to the ten places we move to most
- Kensington to Birmingham£440
120 road miles · about 2 hrs 30 · same-day run
1-bed £310 · 2-bed £440 · 3-bed £570
- Kensington to Bristol£440
120 road miles · about 2 hrs 30 · same-day run
1-bed £310 · 2-bed £440 · 3-bed £570
- Kensington to Nottingham£455
130 road miles · about 2 hrs 45 · same-day run
1-bed £325 · 2-bed £455 · 3-bed £585
- Kensington to Cardiff£485
150 road miles · about 3 hrs 15 · same-day run
1-bed £355 · 2-bed £485 · 3-bed £615
- Kensington to Sheffield£510
165 road miles · about 3 hrs 30 · same-day run
1-bed £380 · 2-bed £510 · 3-bed £640
- Kensington to Manchester£560
200 road miles · about 4 hrs · same-day run
1-bed £430 · 2-bed £560 · 3-bed £690
- Kensington to Leeds£555
195 road miles · about 4 hrs · same-day run
1-bed £425 · 2-bed £555 · 3-bed £685
- Kensington to Liverpool£585
215 road miles · about 4 hrs 15 · same-day run
1-bed £455 · 2-bed £585 · 3-bed £715
- Kensington to Newcastle upon Tyne£690
285 road miles · about 5 hrs 30 · two-day run
1-bed £560 · 2-bed £690 · 3-bed £820
- Kensington to Edinburgh£860
400 road miles · about 7 hrs 30 · two-day run
1-bed £730 · 2-bed £860 · 3-bed £990
- Kensington to Glasgow£875
410 road miles · about 7 hrs 45 · two-day run
1-bed £745 · 2-bed £875 · 3-bed £1005
The working, shown: Kensington to Manchester (200 road miles)
- Studio or single room£430
2 hrs x £65 = £130, plus 200 miles x £1.50 = £300
Two movers · Luton van
- 1-bed home£430
2 hrs x £65 = £130, plus 200 miles x £1.50 = £300
Two movers · Luton van
- 2-bed home£560
4 hrs x £65 = £260, plus 200 miles x £1.50 = £300
Two movers · Luton or 7.5t
- 3-bed home£690
6 hrs x £65 = £390, plus 200 miles x £1.50 = £300
Three movers · 7.5t lorry
- 4-bed home£820
8 hrs x £65 = £520, plus 200 miles x £1.50 = £300
Three movers · 7.5t or 18t lorry
- 5-bed home£950
10 hrs x £65 = £650, plus 200 miles x £1.50 = £300
Four movers · 18t lorry
Published add-ons
- Each additional crew hour£65
Billed in 30-minute blocks, both ends
- Full packing service£180
Materials and labour, priced from room count
- Boxes and materials delivered£45
Starter pack of 20, before moving day
- Dismantle and reassemble, per item£25
Beds, wardrobes and desks
- Overnight or interim storage, per week£35
Per pallet-sized load, insured
- Two-day run with overnight stop£220
Driver overnight on 250-mile-plus routes
- Piano, safe or specialist item£150
Extra crew and equipment, quoted on survey
Every price on this page is the same sum: £65 an hour of crew time plus £1.50 a road mile, with one hour loading and one hour unloading included as the baseline. VAT, fuel, blankets, straps, transit insurance and the driver's lifting help are inside it. Congestion Charge, ULEZ and any suspended-bay fee are quoted with the price, never added afterwards.
- Crew hours in Kensington: stairs are the single biggest driver of crew hours on a long-distance job — a third-floor walk-up can add two billed hours before a wheel turns.
- Road miles from W8: measured on the real route via M1, M4 and the M25, not as the crow flies.
- Congestion Charge and ULEZ apply to a W8 departure and are quoted with the price, never added later.
- Bay suspension with Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea where the lorry cannot legally stand outside — the fee is shown as its own line.
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Price your Kensington, W8 long-distance move
Same formula we quote from: £65 an hour of crew time plus £1.50 a road mile.
Your fixed price
£560
4 hrs x £65 = £260, plus 200 miles x £1.50 = £300
Two movers · Luton or 7.5t · Manchester run, about 4 hrs driving · includes VAT
Send your two postcodes and we confirm the exact road miles and crew hours — the sum, not just the total.
Coverage
Around Kensington we also move out of
Nearby areas we also move out of
- Earl's Court SW5
- South Kensington SW7
- West Kensington and Olympia W14
- Bayswater W2
- Paddington W2
- Notting Hill W11
- Holland Park W11
- West Brompton and Chelsea Harbour SW10
- Chelsea SW3
- Maida Vale W9
- Hammersmith W6
- Brook Green W6
Or see long distance moves across Kensington and Chelsea · long distance moves from London
Related services
Other moving services in Kensington W8
Moving Services in Kensington
Every move we run in W8 — our general moving page for Kensington.
House Removals in Kensington
Staying inside London? A whole home in W8, packed and priced as one fixed job.
Man with a Van in Kensington
Single items and small loads out of W8, charged by the hour instead of by the mile.
Office Removals in Kensington
Relocating a business out of Kensington — desks, IT and crate runs, out of hours.
Professional Packing
On a long run, packing quality decides what survives the motorway. Boxed and labelled before load day.
Rubbish & House Clearance
Licensed waste carrier for everything you have decided not to drive out of W8.
About the area
Moving out of Kensington W8
The high street, palace gardens and the quiet garden squares of Kensington proper. Kensington Palace anchors the neighbourhood, and the nearest station is High Street Kensington (Circle, District). Housing here is stucco terraces, red-brick mansion blocks with porters and mews cottages. — 82.7% of homes in Kensington are flats and 45.9% are privately rented, which is why so many moves out of Kensington are one- and two-bed loads heading a long way rather than family houses moving round the corner. Mansion blocks with cage lifts and porter sign-in; Kensington High Street loading windows are short. Central London loads pay their motorway toll in minutes rather than miles: getting out of the zone is the slow part, and we plan the departure slot around it.
Getting out of London: M1, M4 and the M25
Central London loads pay their motorway toll in minutes rather than miles: getting out of the zone is the slow part, and we plan the departure slot around it.
At a glance
Kensington at a glance ONS Census 2021
Area at a glance
Kensington W8 by the numbers
Who lives here and what they live in decides how a clean is priced and how long it takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Kensington Abingdon and Kensington Gardens and North Kensington and South Kensington neighbourhood itself — not Kensington and Chelsea-wide averages, and not estimates.
28,503
Residents
Kensington Abingdon and Kensington Gardens and North Kensington and South Kensington neighbourhood, Census 2021
13,346
Households
Median age 37.4
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
42.9%
Privately rented
45.9%
- Median age
- 37.4
- Owner-occupied
- 35.3%
- Social rented
- 18.7%
- Postcode districts
- W8
- Nearest station
- High Street Kensington
- Parking
- CPZ + C-Charge + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Kensington Abingdon, Kensington Gardens, North Kensington, South Kensington (E02000579, E02000587, E02000589, E02000592) — the published geography that covers Kensington, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the W8 district: 51.5012, -0.1943 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Questions
Long distance moves from Kensington answered
A 1-bed is £430, a 2-bed £560 and a 3-bed £690. Those are the formula, not a guess: crew hours at £65 plus 200 road miles at £1.50.
Both are around 120 road miles from W8, so a 2-bed is £440 and a 3-bed £570. They are comfortable same-day runs with the unload finished by late afternoon.
Mansion blocks with cage lifts and porter sign-in; Kensington High Street loading windows are short. Stairs are the single biggest driver of crew hours on a long-distance job — a third-floor walk-up can add two billed hours before a wheel turns.
The baseline is one hour loading and one hour unloading for a 1-bed, four crew hours in total for a 2-bed and six for a 3-bed. Half-landings and 1890s doorways decide the load hours long before the motorway does. We ask for the floor and the stair type at survey, then price the hours honestly rather than discovering them on the day.
M1, M4 and the M25. Central London loads pay their motorway toll in minutes rather than miles: getting out of the zone is the slow part, and we plan the departure slot around it. We quote the real road distance from W8, which is usually a few miles more than a map's straight line.
Yes. The team that loads in Kensington is the team that unloads at the far end — no depot transfer, no shared lorry, no third party you have never met carrying your bed up someone else's stairs.
Guides
Read before you book three long-distance guides
Long Distance Moving Costs from London: Mileage Pricing Explained
Why £65 an hour plus £1.50 a mile beats a "from" price, and how to check any quote you are given.
Read the guide
Moving Out of London: The Six-Week Checklist
Everything that has to happen before a long-distance load day, in the order it has to happen.
Read the guideLondon to Manchester, Birmingham and Scotland: What the Route Actually Costs
Route by route: real road miles, real drive times, when a run becomes two days, and the price for each.
Read the guideWho wrote this page
Reviewed by Sarbaz Hassan, Operations Director — .
Every mileage, crew-hour figure and access note on this page comes from long-distance moves our own crews have loaded in Kensington, W8 and unloaded across the UK — measured on the road, not estimated from a map.
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- Goods-in-transit & public liability insured
- DBS-checked crews
- Licensed waste carrier